VoIP Providers begin to offer E-911

July 26, 2005

AT&T announced on July 11, 2005 that it will begin introducing Enhanced 911 service (E-911) to its AT&T CallVantage® Service users in a phased deployment to be largely completed later this summer. E-911 service delivers a caller's name, telephone number and service address directly to the console of the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in the event of an emergency. AT&T will provide this service to their customers for no additional cost....

New Technology in the home

July 5,2005

It is no secret that new VoIP technology is taking the business world by storm. Its growth in recent years is off the charts. It is no longer a question of "if" but "when" every business will switch from a traditional telephone service to a VoIP provider. Peter Hall, director or research at Ovum, and his team have observed businesses and their usual 10 year cycle with telephone technology. His findings are astonishing. Ovum predicts IP....

VoIP in 2008

July 19, 2005

Voice over Internet/IP is really an old technology re-emerging with new features and a new marketing twist. VoIP is basically the ability to communicate on a phone over your Internet connection. In reality, we've been using VoIP for years, just as the Internet community used email for years before it was embraced by consumer in the mid-1990s. VoIP has finally matured to the stage worthy of replacing everyday phone use.....